Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 5:31 PM CDT for Franklin County, Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1996, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 062232 SVRSTL MOC071-189-062315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 531 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY AT 528 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNION MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS OF 50-60 MPH. PACIFIC...EUREKA...BALLWIN...GRAY SUMMIT AND VILLA RIDGE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GLASS/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Shelby | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 38 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.